George S. Schuyler byl mistrem satiry, jehož díla pronikavě zkoumala témata rasových mýtů a bílé nadvlády. Jeho psaní, ovlivněné jeho zkušenostmi jako novinář a kritik, se vyznačovalo bystrou ironií a neochvějným odhodláním odhalovat podvody bez ohledu na rasu. Schuyler mistrně využíval literární satiru k rozebírání společenských předsudků a zkoumal složitosti rasové identity a asimilace. Jeho díla zůstávají důležitým příspěvkem do americké literatury, které nabízejí nadčasový pohled na rasové a sociální otázky.
From the 1920s to the 1970s, George S. Schuyler was one of the US's most prolific - and controversial - observers of African American life. A collection of Schuyler's political and cultural criticism, Rac(e)ing to the Right includes many essays that are not well known as well as pieces that have never before been published.
Set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, this Picaresque novel offers a sharp satire on American race relations. It follows an African American scientist who creates a process to transform blacks into whites, attracting individuals seeking better social and economic opportunities. The narrative critiques both the KKK and NAACP, exposing how race is treated as an obsession and a commodity. As the transformation spreads, the story reveals the underlying economic motivations for racial segregation in the South, highlighting the complexities of identity and societal status.
Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp. Black No More is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was black. Black No More is a hysterical exploration of race and all its self-serving definitions. If you can't beat them, turn into them. Ishmael Reed, one of today's top black satirists and the author of Mumbo Jumbo and Japanese by Spring, provides a spirited Introduction. The fertile artistic period now known as the Harlem Renaissance (1920- 1930) gave birth to many of the world-renowned masters of black literature and is the model for today's renaissance of black writers.
'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority ... Schuyler's wild, misanthropic, take-no-prisoners satire of American life seems more relevant than ever ... Afrofuturist before such a term existed' New York Review of Books Telling the extraordinary story of a mysterious process that can turn black skin white in 1930s America, Black No More is a pioneering and caustic work of Black speculative fiction from one of the great Harlem Renaissance authors. 'A clever and biting satire' Isabel Wilkerson, The New York Times Book Review 'No one is safe from Schuyler's biting mockery' The New York Times
"At once a daring, high-stakes science fiction adventure and a strikingly innovative Afrofuturist classic, this controversial and fearlessly political work lays bare the ethical quandaries of exactly how far one should go in the name of justice"-- Provided by publisher